Ecological and Social Healing Multicultural Women's Voices

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors 

Introduction
Jeanine M. Canty          

Part I: Clear Seeing       

1. Finding Hope at the Margins: A Journey of Environmental Justice
Ana I. Baptista

2. Sustainability and the Soul
Susan Griffin   

3. Seeing Clearly through Cracked Lenses
Jeanine M. Canty        

4. American Indian Women and the Violence of Extractive Industries
Adrienne Benally 

Part II: Intertwined 

5. Piercing the Shell of Privilege: How My Commitments to Environmental, Gender, and Racial Justice Moved from My Head to My Heart
Nina Simons    

6. Living Kind: A Spiritual and Political Journey
Alka Arora

7. Waters of Resistance: Queer Eco-Liberationist Solidarity and the Spirit of Chalchiuhtlicue in Water Justice
Maricela DeMirjyn

8. Linking Ancestral Seeds and Waters to the Indigenous Places We Inhabit
Melissa K. Nelson and Nícola Wagenberg                       

Part III: Kinship       

9. Navajo (Diné) Youth: Cultivating Healthy Relationships Through Traditional Reciprocity
Molly Bigknife Antonio

10. Xicana Mothering with Indigenous Food Systems: Reconnecting with Mesoamerican Ancestral Knowledges through Frameworks of Intergenerational Food Justice as a form of Activism
Sara H. Salazar    

11. Kinsanity: Maddening Entanglements of Fugitive Indigenous Animisms and Ecological Attachments towards Ontological Unraveling
Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd

12. Our Differentiated Unity: An Evolutionary Perspective on Healing the Wounds of Slavery and the Planet
Belvie Rooks 

Part IV: Being And Becoming 

13. The Good Earth: Finding Faith in Our Bodies and in the Land
Tayla Ealom

14. The Doctor Speculates an Alter Whoniverse
Ju-Pong Lin

15. Beauty Out of the Shadows: The Indigenous Turn in a Filipina Narrative
Leny Mendoza Strobel                                    

Index

Biography

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), intersects issues of social and ecological justice within the transformative learning process. She is both the editor and a contributor to Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises and the author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet.

“Jeanine Canty brings us one of those rare and priceless books that free us from conventional reality and, in so doing, illumine our own gifts for personal and collective healing. Like a clarion call to affirm the authority of our often-marginalized experience, Canty’s powerful essay, along with the women’s voices she has assembled here, thrills me with the challenge to see and act in new ways. The intellectual excitement as well as the emotional grounding that I find in this collection charge my life with a sense of truth and adventure.”

Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to Life

“Ecological and Social Healing is a transformative collection of women’s voices whose pain, passion, and resilience are a representation of millions of women whose stories are powerful interventions that interrupt a master narrative and shape what it means to live in a diverse, inclusive, and ecological world. Their stories offer hope for ecological and social healing beginning with self, transformed into social praxis. A must-read to further understand ourselves in a complex relationship with our natural and social environments.”

Suzanne Benally, executive director, Swift Foundation

“Ecological and Social Healing is one of the most inspiring and beautifully conceived compendium of texts by formidable women writers and scholars on the most salient and urgent issues of our troubled Anthropocene. It is a clarion call, an imperative, a spiritual crossroads for understanding and appreciating our interconnectedness and indebtedness to one another and the ‘more-than-human’. From explications of the profound spiritual traditions of Navajo and Filipino cultures, to talk of restructuring our global economy and so much more, this compelling book teems with antidotes to living in a dark, paralyzed, wounded time. Let us gather and absorb the gnosis here and act on it. Many kudos to editor Jeanine M. Canty for moving our century forward.”

Anne Waldman, poet

“We often speak of books ‘breaking’ new ground. Ecological and Social Healing heals it. It asks us all to reconnect areas of life that have been falsely divided to (re)discover the wisdom necessary to bear witness to the pain of the societal disconnect that has led to the degradation of our collective habitat. Only from that place of honoring can true healing begin. It is more than just reclaiming the feminine and the indigenous. It is reclaiming the whole.”

Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei